Geno Auriemma

NEW YORK — On Monday night, the UConn coach was in Toronto where he saw his sophomore guard, Kia Nurse, lay 33 points on the United States to help Canada to an 81-73 victory in the gold medal game of the Pan Am Games. Two other UConn players, senior All-Americas Breanna Stewart and Moriah Jefferson, were on the Team USA squad. And during a collision with Nurse on Monday, Jefferson sustained a concussion. And then on Tuesday morning, Geno Auriemma flew to New York where shortly after noon he plopped into a cushioned chair on the set of the YES Network's "CenterStage" show with host Michael Kay, the former sports writer who is the Yankees' TV play-by-play...

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